Steppenwolf — Vocabulary
Hermann Hesse
translated by: Creighton; updated by Mileck
(Auto-generated)

I had already experienced it several times, and always in periods of utmost despair.32 more

Although during the few days of waiting I never despaired of my friend keeping her word, this did not prevent my being in a state of acute suspense when the day arrived.†32 more

Yes, with Mozart and the immortals.24 more

For every strong man attains to that which a genuine impulse bids him seek.†14 more

With this I have gone far ahead and, contrary to my actual plan and intention, already conveyed what Haller essentially meant to me; whereas my original aim was to uncover his picture by degrees while telling the course of my gradual acquaintance with him.11 more

On the contrary, it was often exceedingly painful, often almost intolerable.11 more

Love and confidence had changed of a sudden to hate and deadly enmity and the neighbors saw me go with pitying scorn.†8 more

As thousands of his like do, he found consolation and support, and not merely the melancholy play of youthful fancy, in the idea that the way to death was open to him at any moment.†9 more

I remember an instance of this in the last days he was here, if I can call a mere fleeting glance he gave me an example of what I mean.†9 more

I don't grudge all those lonely persons their mute music, whether it's Yearning or the Magic Flute or Valencia.†10 more

In my lamentable state I was half-thankful for the cordiality with which he threw himself on me.†6 more

...the heroic and the beautiful, and the reverence for the great poets or for the saints...6 more

That day, too, however, he came back in the evening, sad, and wretched as usual.†9 more

The pious call it the kingdom of God.6 more

Besides this, he was secretly and persistently attracted to the little bourgeois world, to those quiet and respectable homes with tidy gardens ... and their whole modest air of order and comfort.50 more

In him the man and the wolf did not go the same way together, but were in continual and deadly enmity.6 more

It was repugnant to me, and yet ten times preferable to all the academic music of the day.†5 more

I saw myself as a dead-weary pilgrim, dragging myself across the desert of the other world, laden with the many superfluous books I had written, and all the articles and essays; followed by the army of compositors who had had the type to set up, by the army of readers who had had it all to swallow.†3 more

Let suicide be as stupid, cowardly, shabby as you please, call it an infamous and ignominious escape; still, any escape, even the most ignominious, from this treadmill of suffering was the only thing to wish for.†3 more

You mean a name, and fame with posterity?†3 more